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ENGL351 Victorian Literature and Culture

Updated: 08 November 2011
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Trimester 1 Off Campus
Armidale Trimester 1 On Campus
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites ENGL101 and ENGL102
Co-requisites None
Restrictions ENGL451 or ENGL551
Notes

Offered in even numbered years
Combined Units ENGL551 - Victorian Literature and Culture
Coordinator(s) Jennifer McDonell (jmcdonel@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

The unit introduces students to the Victorian period and examines a selection of Victorian texts and images in relation to social, religious, political, economic and other contexts. It will begin with an interrogation of notions of 'Victorianism', and proceed to examine such areas of debate as religious faith and doubt, gender and nation, empire and race, the Victorian 'invention' of childhood, post-Darwinian fears about the species divisions, especially about what constitutes the 'human'.
Prescribed Material
Mandatory 		Shrink Wrapped Package(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

Kim and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde SWP
ISBN: 9780470818947
Kipling, R. and Stevenson, R.L., John Wyley & Sons 2003
Note: Package includes: Kipling, R., Kim (ISBN 9780393966503) and Stevenson, R.L., Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (ISBN 9780393974652)
Text refers to: Trimester 1 , On and Off Campus
Text(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

Jane Eyre
ISBN: 9780141441146
Bronte, C., Penguin 2006
Text refers to: Trimester 1 , On and Off Campus
Middlemarch
ISBN: 9780141439549
Eliot, G., Penguin 2003
Text refers to: Trimester 1 , On and Off Campus
The Island of Dr Moreau
ISBN: 9781551113272
Wells, H.G., Broadview Press 1st ed. 2009
Text refers to: Trimester 1 , On and Off Campus
Agnes Grey
ISBN: 9780199296989
Bronte, A., Oxford World's Classics 2010
Text refers to: Trimester 1 , On and Off Campus
Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology
ISBN: 9780631234364
O'Gorman, F. (ed), Blackwell 2004
Text refers to: Trimester 1 , On and Off Campus
Tom Brown's Schooldays
ISBN: 9780199537303
Hughes, T., Oxford World's Classics 2008
Text refers to: Trimester 1 , On and Off Campus
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment
Title Exam Length Weight Mode No. Words
Assignment 1: Online Test 1 10%
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1, 2, 4 GA: 1, 6
Assignment 2: Online Test 2 10%
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1, 2, 4 GA: 1, 6
Assignment 3: Written Essay 40% 2000
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1, 2, 3, 4 GA: 1-3, 6
Take Home Exam 40%
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1, 2, 3, 4 GA: 1-3, 6

Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. identify and discuss key topics of debate within the field of Victorian literature and culture studies;
  2. understand the strategies and mechanisms by which literary texts engage with their cultural contexts;
  3. discuss and describe the work of select authors of the Victorian period; and
  4. apply critical analytical skills to selected Victorian literary texts.

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
1 Knowledge of a Discipline
This unit introduces students to a range of texts and areas of debate within the discipline of Victorian literary and cultural studies.Knowledge is assessed through students' performance in the two set assessment tasks. 		True True True
2 Communication Skills
Oral communication skills will be assessed and practised in seminars (for on-campus students in weekly seminars and for off-campus students in seminars at the Intensive School). Written communication skills will be assessed as part of the essay assessment task and the examination. 		True True
3 Global Perspectives
Global perspective and inter-cultural competence will be taught, assessed and practised through all the learning activities of the unit, including advisory materials, seminars and in the assessment task. The content of the unit deals with nineteenth century Britain, including its colonialist and imperialist relationship to India and Australia. 		True True True
4 Information Literacy
While these attributes are not specifically taught or assessed as part of the syllabus students will make use of electronic information resources in order to research individual topics and to complete the written assessment task. References to electronic resources will be given in advisory materials and it is assumed the students will use basic research and retrieval skills to pursue these. 		True
5 Life-Long Learning
Life-long learning will be taught and practised by encouraging students to read culture in an informed and critical way especially in the context of the seminar, lecture, advisory materials and in the assessment tasks. 		True True
6 Problem Solving
In the advisory materials, seminar topics, essay and exam questions students will be asked to critically and creatively think through issues that arise from their study of specific texts (prescribed texts and additional readings). Furthermore they will be required to relate these texts to debates that were important for the Victorians; thus problem solving is integral to the way the unit will be taught, assessed and practised. 		True True True
7 Social Responsibility
The content of the unit is largely concerned with social and political issues central to the Victorian period. In a practical sense the ethics of responsibility and respect for others will be integral to the students' effective and constructive participation in the lectures and seminar discussions that comprise the face-to-face teaching component of the unit. 		True True
8 Team Work
On-campus students have an opportunity to practise team work in seminars. Off-campus students have a limited opportunity for such interaction at the Intensive School. 		True
   

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